Macbeth (character) Quotes

Question 1

Hurly-burly

Answer 1

‘When the hurly-burly’s done, When the battle’s lost and won’ (Second Witch)

Question 2

Witches meeting someone

Answer 2

‘There to meet with MacBeth’ (Third Witch)

Question 3

Main quote from the witches, whole narrative of the play

Answer 3

‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair’ (Witches)

Question 4

Macbeths bravery (captain)

Answer 4

‘brave MacBeth – well he deserves that name’ (Captain)

Question 5

Minion (captain)

Answer 5

‘Like Valour’s minion carv’d out his passage’ (Captain)

Question 6

Very brutal killing (captain)

Answer 6

‘Till he unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps
And fixed his head upon our battlements’ (Captain)

Question 7

Macbeth and Banquo are equals (Duncan)

Answer 7

‘Dismay’d not this our captains, MacBeth and Banquo?’ (Duncan)

Question 8

Comparing Macbeth to animals (captain)

Answer 8

‘Yes, as sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion’ (Captain)

Question 9

Biblical imagery (captain)

Answer 9

‘meant to bathe in reeking wounds
Or memorise another Golgotha’ (Captain)

Question 10

Roman godess of destruction (captain)

Answer 10

‘Bellona’s bridegroom’ (Captain)

Answer 11

‘Go pronounce his present death
And with his former title greet MacBeth’ (Duncan)

Answer 12

‘What he hath lost, noble MacBeth hath won’ (Duncan)

Answer 13

‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen’ (MacBeth)

Answer 14

‘Live you, or are you aught
That man may question?’ (Banquo)

Answer 15

‘you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so’ (Banquo)

Answer 16

‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, that shalt be king hereafter.’ (Witches)

Answer 17

‘Lesser than MacBeth, and greater.’
‘Not so happy, yet much happier.’
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.’ (Witches)

Answer 18

‘He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor’ (Ross)

Answer 19

(Aside) ‘Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:
The greatest is behind’ (MacBeth)

Answer 20

(Aside) ‘This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good’ (MacBeth)

Answer 21

‘If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me
Without my stir’ (MacBeth)